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Companion Grind?
Beyorn
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Is the influence grind to 50 bad? I had all my companions at max influence before the expansion hit. The level sync and change to companions left a bad taste in my mouth. Those who are still playing? What do you think about the game?
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The story is good enough to play through once or twice. Unfortunately there's not much to do beyond that. So far I've done 10 or 11 chapters... Im just going to wait until they release 16 to resub and play through the rest of the game. I'd say the full 16 chapter storyline will be worth the cost of a 1 month sub. I primarily pvp'd in the game, but queues have been dead for a while on most servers. You'll probably have to transfer to harbinger if you're interested in group activities on NA. Not sure how the EU scene looks, but it always seemed more populated.
To answer your question. They significantly reduced the rate at which you can get influence with companions unless you unload money on gifts. Which have a small diminishing return when you do a lot of them at once of the same type. To give you an example. Scorpio likes everything except courting, republic, and food. So almost every time I open a heroic mission container. She gets a companion gift she likes, and it's often a purple QL6 item. Despite being active the last two weeks. She's only influence level 17 in the two weeks I've had her and have given her 90% of my companion gift rewards for doing heroic missions.
I'm mainly just interested in leveling alts and going through the story. I still have a lot of class stories to do. When I get them all to 50 (what is the max level now? 55? 60?) I will pick one and go through all the rest of the stories, if the grind is not a big deal. Last time I played the XP was really good and I only had to do story missions. It was right after the big change when they made companions really powerful and you didn't have to gear them any more. Then they nerfed the companions hard and I unsubbed. I hate being jerked around like that. I don't know what happened after that.
And you do want to level them up as it does effect how well they actually help you when playing solo. The higher they are the more they heal etc...
If you are levelling your characters only to see the story, grinding companion influence is completely unnecessary. As you said you need only one companion now and if you use the same one you will receive more than enough influence from story conversations to get through all the chapters easily (for example my Consular companion ended at influence level 14).
As mentioned above it might be worth rising your influence to max level if you plan to use your crew skills a lot, however, as companion gifts are not free, I do not know how much you have actually craft to make this investment worth the time and money.
To answer your other questions, max character level is now 65 and shortly after that companion nerf you mentioned happened, they made companions more powerful, due to people complaints, although they are still not as strong as they were when KotFE released. Also there is no grind for levelling from 50 to 65, just doing story content should be enough to reach max level.
I just want to see how the various storylines play out. Thanks for the responses.